Then, three years ago, researchers found a 3,000-year-old apiary in the Iron Age city of Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley, the oldest known commercial beekeeping facility in the world, suggesting that the word "honey" likely referred to the real thing. Now the same researchers have gotten an even bigger surprise: The bees that were kept in the hives were most likely from Turkey, hundreds of miles away.
"This is a very special discovery … because there is no evidence from before for bringing any kind of animals from such a distance, especially bees, which represent a quite complicated, sophisticated type of agriculture," said archaeologist Amihai Mazar
Bronze Age Bee Commerce?
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Bronze Age Bee Commerce?
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Re: Bronze Age Bee Commerce?
Nonsense!here is no evidence from before for bringing any kind of animals from such a distance
Animal husbandry has countless examples of (relatively) long distance trade in animals.
Bees can't walk/must be carried Yes but we've established that prehistoric peoples weren't stupid why wouldn't they think of trading for Bees?